Whatever It Takes Women on Women's Sport

by Sandoz, Joli; Winans, Joby

• ISBN13: 9780374525972
• ISBN10: 0374525978
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-19
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

From Elizabeth Cady Stanton on bicycling to Anna Seaton huntington on rowing, the first anthology of women's personal essays on sports. With edge, passion, and depth, "Whatever It Takes demonstrates the enormous importance of sports for girls and women. These essays deal with everything from finding a mentor -whether it's an Olympic gold winner or a neighborhood coach-to reveling in female team spirit. There are historical selections, as well as discussions of such developments as Title IX. The contributors, including world-class athletes and celebrated writers from Mariah Burton Nelson and Grace Butcher to Diane Ackerman and Maxine Kumin, tackle traditional favorites such as basketball and softball as well as more exotic sports from boxing and motorcycle racing to rock climbing. Both timely and riveting, "Whatever It Takes will appeal to the rapidly growing ranks of female athletes and to their enthusiastic followers.

Author Biography

Joli Sandoz edited A Whole Other Ball Game (FSG, 1997) and teaches at Evergreen State College. She has played, coached, and written about sports since her first plunge off the starting blocks in 1961.

Joby Winans was a varsity collegiate athlete who now competes in road races and masters track and field. She works as a training and organizational development professional in Tacoma, Washington.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
Pulling No Punches (from Kill the Body: The Head Will Fall)	p. 12
Summer Showdown	p. 22
Women Play Football	p. 28
Killer Instinct	p. 30
Next Game	p. 33
Never	p. 39
Remembering Stella Walsh	p. 41
Awesome Women in Sports	p. 52
O Promised Land!	p. 61
Smells Like Team Spirit: Portrait of a Rank Season	p. 62
They're Pooling Their Power	p. 75
The Value of Girl's Basket Ball	p. 78
A Peaches Fan for Life	p. 79
American Past Time	p. 88
In Praise of Bush Leagues	p. 89
Camper of the Year	p. 93
Recognition	p. 100
From A Wheel within a Wheel	p. 102
Grandmothers Nowadays Play	p. 108
My Mother, My Rival	p. 109
Of High-tops and Home Plates	p. 113
Swimming and Writing	p. 118
Green Afternoons	p. 127
From Swimming the Channel	p. 137
MVHS X-Country Team	p. 143
Privilege	p. 144
Dawn Staley (from Venus to the Hoop)	p. 146
I Ching #17 Following (The Discus Thrower)	p. 151
Dreams on Ice	p. 152
A Swimming Lesson	p. 156
The Athletic Girl	p. 160
Precious Medals	p. 163
Wheelchair Flying	p. 165
Baseball is about Playing	p. 167
From An American Childhood	p. 175
Sikes Room, Princeton Boathouse	p. 177
Coming Home	p. 179
Learning to Swim at Forty-five	p. 195
Seconds	p. 197
Sidelines	p. 211
Turning it Up	p. 218
Losing Baseball, the 1950s	p. 229
Memoirs of a Would-Be Swim Champ	p. 230
Sneakers	p. 243
Q: Why Do You Want to Race? A: Because My Name Comes Apart	p. 252
Ernestine Bayer	p. 257
Solo Shoot (from In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle)	p. 260
What Goes Around, Comes Around	p. 262
By Atoms Moved	p. 268
From "The Revolutionary Bicycle"	p. 269
Ready, Wrestle	p. 270
Up for the Count	p. 275
Tournament-Tough	p. 280
Longing and Bliss	p. 290
Bench Press, or Becoming a Girl Again	p. 298
From Pilgrim at Tinker Creek	p. 306
Contributors' Notes	p. 309
Permissions	p. 319
Acknowledgments	p. 323
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